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Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and 8 of their Senate colleagues in... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Booker, SFRC Colleagues Demand Answers Regarding State Department Layoffs

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), released the following... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on FBI Headquarters, CJS Appropriations Markup

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and U.S. Representatives Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Rounds, Kamlager-Dove, Kim Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Strengthen U.S.-Africa Ties

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, & International... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Curtis Introduce Bipartisan Taiwan International Solidarity Act

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s emergency ruling in AFGE v. Trump, giving the Trump Administration initial... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Supreme Court Paving the Way for Administration Plan for Mass Firings of Federal Workers

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 15 of their Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of State Marco... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Schatz, Cruz, Colleagues in Urging Secretary Rubio to Bring Home Americans Wrongfully Detained in Venezuela

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and Representative Steny Hoyer,... Continue Reading about Team Maryland Statement on Administration Attempt to Reprogram FBI Headquarters Funding

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on his opposition to the “Big, Ugly Betrayal” tax plan passed by Senate Republicans this morning that... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Passage of Senate Republicans’ “Big, Ugly Betrayal” Against American Families

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the intelligence briefing received today by members of the Senate regarding President... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Senate Intelligence Briefing

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), hosted a hearing with... Continue Reading about Van Hollen to Bondi: We Are Witnessing a Level of Lawlessness from This Administration That is Unprecedented in Scale and Scope

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) at a spotlight forum titled, “Scamming Our Schools: Robbing Our Students’ Futures to Line... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Hirono at Spotlight Forum on Harmful Consequences of Republican’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for Public School Students

Today—on the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning the constitutional right to abortion—U.S.... Continue Reading about At Dobbs Spotlight Forum, Van Hollen Joins Murray, Senate Democrats, in Highlighting Trump & Republicans’ Backdoor Abortion Ban & Efforts to Rip Away Reproductive Health Care Nationwide

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to attack Iran: “Trump said he would end wars; now he has dragged... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement on Trump Decision to Attack Iran

Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Markey, Wyden in Demanding Information on Government’s Use of AI and Other Technology to Label People as National Security Risks

U.S. Senator Chirs Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science, joined Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice Chair of the... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Colleagues in Calling on DOJ to Withdraw Unlawful Rule Enabling DOJ to Help Violent Criminals Regain Firearms—in Defiance of Decades-Old Appropriations Law

Today, U.S. Senator Van Hollen submitted the following statement for the record on the GENIUS Act: "M. President, yesterday I voted against final passage of the GENIUS Act. I think... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Statement for the Record on GENIUS Act

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) joined Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in intoducing a resolution to designate June 19, 2025 as “World Sickle Cell Awareness Day” to... Continue Reading about Van Hollen Joins Booker, Davis in Introducing Bicameral World Sickle Cell Awareness Day Resolution

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) was joined by 30 Senate colleagues in putting forward legislation to provide qualified Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred... Continue Reading about Following Trump Attacks on TPS, Van Hollen, 30 Senators Put Forward Bill to Protect TPS and DED Recipients

Today, the Maryland Congressional Delegation – U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and U.S. Representatives April McClain Delaney, Steny Hoyer, Andy Harris, Kweisi... Continue Reading about Maryland Delegation Urges President Trump to Approve Disaster Declaration for Allegany, Garrett Counties Following Destructive Floods

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) are introducing new legislation in a continuation of their efforts to hold El Salvador... Continue Reading about Van Hollen, Kaine, Padilla Introduce Legislation to Sanction Salvadoran Officials for Human Rights Abuses, Collusion with Trump Administration in Violation of Constitutional Rights